GUUUYZ!!! I AM really, really sorry for the delay! I was like: “maybe write a chappy today?”, then my pa was like: “wanna go to our second house in the mountains? For 2-3 days” (not rly house… buuut), and I was like “aww yisss”. And after 2 days there was “ya wanna stay one more day?” and then it was repeated like… 4 times? And well, I have no PC nor net there so I have no possibility to inform ya… ( and I was to hyped to notify ya earlier)…

Aw and Xephon… gz with catching up. You have literally spammed my mailbox from the top to the bottom with notifications. It was a really pleasant thing to see right after I got back. Dude! You read 14-17 chapps a day! It’s about 40-70 pages!! How the hell did ya do it?! Didn’t ya got bored? I mean… I am still a genius and the story is a masterpiece so I shouldn’t be that surprised…

Well anyway, to not hold ya any longer. TO THE STORY!:

Edited by: KenChi死

You have slain [Special Assassin of Holy Kingdom - Hansel von Morningstar]You have obtained 411 exp + 11 exp

You have slain [Special Assassin of Holy Kingdom - Gretel von Morningstar]You have obtained 411 exp + 11 exp

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Hunter of HuntersQuest UpdateYou have slain every hunter sent to the forest.

Report to Aira to finish the quest

My mind was blank, head was aching, throat was demanding some water and I wanted to puke really badly. And I was too weak to move my limbs.

Actually even if I could I would not be able to because somehow my body was restricted… like I was tied up from toes to the shoulders. But the grip wasn’t too tight… extremely warm, bit sticky, and extremely pleasant. Like being embraced… by something big…

Yet I didn’t panicked. The touch was too caring for me to feel threatened.

I tried opening my eyes, but as my vision was completely hazy I once again embraced warmth and felt asleep.

I woke up probably a couple of hours later with something in my mouth. It was easy to swallow, it helped to ease the pain in my throat and tasted like iron. Something bloody? I like steaks rare but please, that’s a bit too much.

Yet I am hungry and bloody meals will help me get rid of anemia. Crap. I need to start preparing vials of blood and using them instead. Blacking out after every use of Equilibrium is way too risky. Once again I am lucky that I was found by someone that didn’t wish me harm… But soon I will run out of my luck resources…

“Looks like he is awake… finally, how long can one sleep… I mean… he is not a reptile so he does not hibernates” “Stop whining. He gave us plenty of food. Delicious, atop of that”

I opened my eyes, even if still blurry, my eyes were getting better and better and soon my vision was good enough sufficient to see more or less what is all around me.

And now I know by what who I was tied up. Some lamia wrapped me with her tail up to my belt while hugging her upper part of her chest to mine. She was looking at me with half closed half blank eyes, a half pleased expression plastered on her face.”

Another lamia examined my condition and as it get to the point that I am fully aware of my surrounding, said:

“Do not struggle. She ate a lot and now she is digesting. Snakes, while doing so, can radically boost their metabolism, generating a lot of heat, ours livers and hearts are swelling to speed up the process. We can forcefully stop the process to get our mobility back… but it also means we have to get rid of the food in our stomachs. Literally, she will puke on you if you will awake her. Be a good Beastgod, and lie down a little longer. Just enjoy yourself. We will feed you soon, so no worries.”

Feed me? do I look like an 8 year old? On the other hand… maybe if I will free my hands… But as I moved the grip of her tail get tighter. To the point of being even more pleasant… but I simply know that in no time it can change to a painful one.

I heard someone’s bare feet on the ground. In the whole lamia nest I know only about one being that can… “generate” feet. The Queen was approaching.

“How nice… you really did your part of the deal” I don’t like her tone! I don’t like it at all! “Buuut… Looks like you were not as competent as you said you were… in the end you had to be dragged here half dead and treated by us… You have just paid for your life with those humans… and here once again you have a life debt to me…” fuck. FUUUCK. “Ah, it’s because I realized that after that, I wouldn’t probably ever see you again, I had to do something to let my unworthy eyes lie upon your magnificence once again.” “Ho… nice one, but will not buy you anything. But A+ for effort.” “It was still worth trying.”

She sat next to me and started playing with my hairs. You remember me saying that I did not panic while being restricted? I take that back. Even more, as her wonderful, silky white hands, so soft and pleasant in the touch, were armed with pretty long claws that looked sharp enough to cut through diamonds.

“ I am in such horrible pain!” She said with overly pompous tone “To chose between letting you go, to let your grow and so on… and playing with you a little longer… I have visitors so, so, sooo rarely!” She looked at me with almost begging eyes… yet I knew she is just playing around “Do you promise to visit me every once in a while?” “Your invitation is something I would never refuse…” “You are planning to run from the forest as far as possible while we are talking, aren’t you?”

Crap.

“I admit defeat.” What’s the point in playing the game while not knowing the rules? She knows what I want and will do before I even get the idea. “I am releasing you from our pact and mark.” I felt a tingly sensation on my arm in the place of mark put by queen earlier. I am pretty sure that it is disappearing as we are talking. “But know, that in the future, as you will grow up a bit, I will ask you a favor. A serious one,, not like our game from before. Rest now. As you will feel better, you have my permission to use your totem to replace the spell. You will not need the marking one any longer. Then, leave.”

She got up and wanted to leave, but after a second she once again bowed above me.

“But before I forgot. Your reward. Open your mouth.”

As she said, her nail left a blood mark on her wrist making drops of blood land right on my tongue.

As few more drops ran through my throat to my stomach she turned around and vanished in the dark.

Soon after the Queen’s visit it was the time fom my “feeding”.

One of the lamia’s brand with her pretty decent, yet bloody, meat piece and started chewing it. I was left clueless for a second. Didn’t ya say just half an hour ago that I will be the one eating? So why are you the one eati… wait, what are you doing? Aren’t your lips a bit too close to mine? Oh crap.

She forced chewed meat from her mouth to mine, not parting her lips till she was sure that I swallowed my part. Right after she took another bite to repeat the process. She did it so fluently as if it was a completely natural thing. Should I feel bad about this?

Pov change

“Okay, this is our last stop. Refill our supplies. We will be on the verge of the forest in 3 days. Everyone knows their duty. We will meet in the inn. Departure with the sunrise.”

The dark elf finished distributing orders to her teammates. They almost parted their ways. Almost. In the very same time, a few dozen meters from the village gates a beam of light start appearing. As it was getting thinner and more concentrated it “exploded” with some electric charges and powerful wind that blew all around. From quickly vanishing beam, the little girl has gracefully stepped out being violently kicked out.

The teleportation spell was used here. A powerful and accurate one. The teleportation skills, buildings and spells are not really common. Actually, when you see someone using it, you can right away tell, that they are either powerful, rich beyond imagination, or have really, reaaaally powerful “friends”.

The girl that raised from the ground shook the dirt out of her robe was clearly the last case. The emblem of the Magic council attached to her robe was a proof of that.

From the pocket she took a device that after she poured some mana in it, it started showing some kinds of marks. After she ended examining whatever she was examining, and confirming that examining result were fitting in the admissible examining results, she turned and start walking into the village.

Right in the direction of the elven woman.

“You. The adventurers?” She had a weird way of speaking. Like she wanted to speak only about the merits of the case. “We are. But we are also on a quest already. So I doubt we will have time to…” “Quest. Where?” What an annoying brat… if not the protection of the council she wouldn’t be this polite to her… “in the Forest of dread” The is no point in saying anything else. She heard that there are some fields filled with mana that mages investigate from time to time in the opposite direction that the forest. She probably came for those, so after hearing that, she would turn around and… “Perfect. You. Escort. Council pays.” See? Right in the other direc… SAY WHAT?! “Excuse me, but can we know the reason why you are heading there?”

The girl had somehow irritated gaze. The council doesn’t like anyone to mess with their business.

“Message. Deliver.” Ah, that right. There are rumors that some important witch is living on the verge of the forest in some small village. Then getting some bonus coins for doing nothing more is only a good thing. She may slow them down by a day, so it’s not a good thing, buuut… As Raggo used to say : ”Men needs to eat!!!” Nothing more to do about it.

The food rations will need to be slightly bigger. That’s all. Some negotiation will take place in the inn about the honorarium… as the council is the one who pays… it will be illogically big…

Same pov, day after. Morning.

La’iara was already mad. The girl – Miria – didn’t like waking up before sunrise. In the end she got up an hour after the time they should departure. Even Raggo wasn’t able to part the girl and her pillow.

WHAT A PAIN IN THE ASS!... calm down… calm down… think about silver. Think about 60 silver coins that were supposed to be given to them. It’s a fortune!

But everything is prepared! They have already ate, so they are ready to start marching on right n… hehe… hehehe… hahahahah… is the girl packing her bags… now? She didn’t prepare it in the evening? You are fucking kidding me… THIS SIMPLY CAN’T BE HAPPENING! How unorganized one can be!?... We will have to talk with her… soon. About either getting her shit together, or raising the money even more… MUCH MORE!

After yet another hour, the lil’ miss was standing in the door, with her bag on her backs… the bag was bigger than the girl and as she walked it overweighed her making her walk like a drunk. Elven wanted to make the girl’s neck snap. And she probably would, if not Raggo that with one hand lifted the luggage and threw it on his shoulder without saying a word.

THANK YOU RAGGO! YOU ARE SAVING THE DAY!

And here they are. Moving in the direction of the forest. As they were about 20 kilometers away from the village, something appeared on the horizon from the east. It was impossible what it was, but was moving extremely fast in a jumping-like manner… and every time it landed a small explosion followed.

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